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    Daniel Johnson, Jr.

    Daniel Johnson, GOQ, business leader, politician and premier of Québec (born 24 December 1944 in Montréal, Québec). The Vice-President of Power Corporation of Canada from 1978 to 1981, Johnson also served as a member of Québec’s National Assembly for over 25 years. After the resignation of Premier Robert Bourassa, Johnson was elected leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, and on 11 January 1994, he became the 25th premier of Québec. However, he held on to this position for only eight months: in September 1994, the Liberals lost the Québec general election to the Parti Québécois. Johnson then served as leader of the Official Opposition for nearly three years, successfully leading the “No” camp in the Québec referendum campaign of 1995. He left politics in May 1998 and subsequently worked as a lawyer and as a negotiator for the government of Québec, while also sitting on several boards of directors.

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    Daniel Joseph Greene

    Daniel Joseph Greene, lawyer, politician, Liberal prime minister of Nfld 1894-95 (b at St John's 1850; d there 12 Dec 1911). He became prime minister of Newfoundland 13 Dec 1894 in the wake of the legal and political turmoil surrounding the 1893 elections.

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    Daniel Langlois

    Daniel Langlois, OC, COQ, animator, producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist (born 6 April 1957 in Jonquière, QC; died 2023 in Gallion, Dominica). Daniel Langlois was a pioneer in the field of computer animation. In 1997, he received a Scientific and Technical Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for developing Softimage, the industry standard in 3-D computer animation software. After selling and resigning from the company, Langlois created the Daniel Langlois Foundation, which promotes artistic and scientific research. He was then involved in various technology projects, including Montreal’s Ex Centris cinema complex, and developed an eco-conscious luxury resort on the Caribbean island of Dominica. He and his partner were found dead in Dominica under mysterious circumstances in December 2023.

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    Daniel Lanois

    Lanois has enjoyed a fruitful co-production partnership with renowned UK composer Brian Eno, which began when Eno began working at Grant Avenue in 1979.

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    Daniel Lanois

    LifeBorn into a musical family (both his father and grandfather were noted fiddlers), Lanois moved with his mother in 1963 to Hamilton, Ont, where he played guitar in local rock bands (eg, Tranquility Base). He later toured as an accompanist to several folk artists.

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    Daniel Lavoie

    Daniel Lavoie learned the piano from nuns when he was very young and continued his musical education at the Jesuit boarding school, Collège de St-Boniface, in St. Boniface, Manitoba.

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    Daniel Lavoie

    In 1983, the song 'Ils s'aiment' (two million copies sold) thrust Lavoie into the forefront of French-speaking singer-songwriters. It conveyed the anguish of young people in the 1980's, its tense, haunting melody matching the sensitivity of a new generation born with the atom bomb.

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    Daniel Lichti

    Concert and Oratorio EngagementsLichti in his early career was primarily a concert-oratorio singer and as such first appeared as a soloist in Canada in 1979 in Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Ontario Choral Federation under Helmuth Rilling.

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    Daniel Lionel Hanington

    Daniel Lionel Hanington, lawyer, politician, premier of NB (b at Shediac, NB 27 June 1835; d at Dorchester, NB 5 May 1909). Clerk of circuits 1867-70 and a school trustee, he first sat as a Liberal-Conservative MLA for Westmorland in 1870.

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    Daniel MacIvor

    Daniel MacIvor, playwright, actor, film director, screenwriter (born 23 July 1962 in Sydney, NS). 

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    Daniel Massey

    Daniel Massey, manufacturer (b at Windsor, Vt 24 Feb 1798; d at Newcastle, Canada W 15 Nov 1856). A prosperous Methodist farmer near Cobourg, Upper Canada, Massey became interested in farm machinery in the 1830s and invested in a

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    Daniel McCowan

    Daniel McCowan, naturalist, lecturer, writer (b at Crieff, Scot 20 Jan 1882; d at Cloverdale, BC 19 Feb 1956). After an early education in Scotland, he moved to Banff, Alta, where he soon acquired expertise on the local flora and fauna.

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    Daniel Nestor

    Daniel Mark Nestor (born Danijel Nestorović), CM, tennis player, coach (born 4 September 1972 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]). Daniel Nestor is one of Canada’s finest tennis players and one of the best doubles players of all time. One of the most decorated tennis players in the world, he competed in six Olympics and won 91 career doubles titles, including a gold medal in men’s doubles at the 2000 Olympic Summer Games — Canada's first and only Olympic medal in tennis. Nestor was the first Canadian to win at Wimbledon and the first men’s tennis player ever to win all four Grand Slam tournaments, the ATP Masters 1000 events, the ATP Tour Finals and an Olympic gold medal. A Member of the Order of Canada, he has been inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame, the Canadian Tennis Hall of Fame and Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame.

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    Daniel Paillé

    Daniel Paillé, leader of the Bloc Québécois from 2011 to 2013, federal and provincial politician, administrator, economist, university professor (born 1 April 1950 in Montreal, QC). An economist by training, Daniel Paillé has been a senior executive of several institutions and has taught economics at a number of universities. He served in Jaques Parizeau’s cabinet as Minister of Industry in the mid-1990s, and entered federal politics in 2009. Paillé became leader of the Bloc Québécois in December 2011.

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    Daniel Paul

    Daniel Nicholas Paul, CM, ONS, Mi’kmaq elder, author, social justice advocate (born 5 December 1938 on Indian Brook Reserve, NS; died 27 June 2023 in Halifax, NS). Paul is the author of We Were Not the Savages, one of Canada’s first history books from an Indigenous perspective. He had long campaigned for the removal of Halifax’s statue to its controversial founder, Edward Cornwallis, until its removal by Halifax's city council in January 2018.

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